142 AT COVID-19 Airport checks

Record ID: 462954
  • Title: 142 AT COVID-19 Airport checks
  • Date: 18th March 2020
  • Description:Austrians return from abroad, temperature checks for arrivals at Vienna airport Austrian airport has temperatures checks for each passenger arriving, if somebody has fever, the person will be isolated and sent to home quarantine, and contact persons are traced. There is a decrease in numbers of passengers by nearly 95 percent. The airport stays open for cargo flights and also for flights organized by the Austrian Foreign ministry to bring back Austrians from Abroad. Some Austrians have come back home today, like Julia Sperlich who studied in Texas in the US. Now she has interrupted her studies. She is relieved to be back home. It was frightening in the US, as now they started to close schools, and to panic buying, Julia said. More than 48000 Austrians are still abroad, the Austrian foreign ministry advised them to quit their travailing and to try to get back home. Many have followed the advice, people are back from South Africa, Dubai, or Thailand. But it is difficult, as many flights are cancelled, and others are fully booked. Shotlist - Julia Sperlich hugged by her family - SOUNDBITE (GERMAN) Julia Sperlich, student: I am relieved I am back in Austria, it was frightening in the US and I just wanted to be back with my family - Passengers with face masks - WS arrival hall - Travelers arriving - Temperature checks at the airport - SOUNDBITE (German) Peter Kleemann, Spokesperson of the Vienna airport: "At the moment body temperatures is checked from all arriving travelers" - Outside shot of the airport - SOUNDBITE (German) Peter Kleemann, Spokesperson of the Vienna airport: "We are open for a few scheduled, cargo flights, and organized flights by the Austrian government" - Austrian couple returning from Thailand - Greetings touching by foot - VOXPOP (German) couple returned from Thailand: What we have read was like a surreal nightmare, there it was not that way - WS arrival hall
  • Collection: ORF
  • Genre:News
  • Producer:ORF
  • Transmission Date:18/03/2020
  • Decade: 2020s
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